Extension:FormProc

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FormProc Release status: stable
Implementation	User interface, Tag
Description
Author(s)	Jean-Lou Dupont (jldupontTalk)
Last version	See SVN
MediaWiki	tested on 1.10 but probably works with earlier versions
License	No license specified
Download	SVN
Hooks used UnknownAction
Check usage (experimental)

Purpose

This extension offers the ability to process posted pages/forms through the 'action=formsubmit' action. The processing code resides in the database. The code can be 'syntax highlighted' through a <php> tag.

Features

• Handles 'action=formsubmit' action
• Follows 'redirects'
• Executes PHP code stored in a standard Mediawiki page
• Supports code extraction when enclosed in 'PHP' tags
• Supports the definition of a class in the processor page ( $page.'Class' )
  • If a method 'submit' is present in the said class, it will be called upon formsubmit action (see example)

Example

Form Processing Page 'MyFormProc'

 <!-- remove pre section -->
<php>
  class MyFormProcClass
  {
         function submit() { implement your handler here }
  }
</php>

So in the above case, your form should POST to something like MyFormProc?action=formsubmit.

Dependencies

• Extension:StubManager extension
• Extension:RunPHP Class extension

Installation

To install independently from BizzWiki:

• Download 'StubManager' extension
• Apply the following changes to 'LocalSettings.php'

require('extensions/StubManager.php');
require('extensions/RunPHP_class.php');
StubManager::createStub( 'FormProcClass',  // recent versions: try 'FormProc'
                                $IP.'/extensions/FormProc/FormProc.php',  // recent versions: try FormProc.body.php
                                null,
                                array( 'UnknownAction' ),
                                false,        // no need for logging support
                                null, // tags
                                null, // no parser functions
                                null   // no magic words
                         );

History

• added functionality to define a class for handling form processing
• removed dependency on ExtensionClass
• added stubbing capability through StubManager

See also

• BizzWiki platform